Dr. Ana León-Távora

Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish

Office: Greene 542

Phone: (336) 758-4205

E-mail: leontaam@wfu.edu

Curriculum vitae

Education

• Ph.D., English Philology, University of Seville, Spain, 2001
• M.B., English Philology, University of Seville, Spain, 1997
• B.A., English Philology, University of Seville, Spain, 1996

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• European avant-garde artistic manifestations.
• War Literatures
• Modernism/Postmodernism
• Digital writing/other textual media

COURSES TAUGHT:  

• Spanish 111: Elementary Spanish I
• Spanish 112: Elementary Spanish II
• Spanish 153: Intermediate Spanish
• Spanish 154: Advanced Intermediate
• Spanish 213: Introduction to Hispanic Literature
• Spanish 212: Exploring the Hispanic World
• Spanish 316: Spanish Conversation
• Spanish 375-675: Special Topics in Spanish: The Spanish Avant-Garde: Literary and Artistic Manifestations from 1914 to 1939
• Spanish 196 LAC, collaboration with Depart. of Psychology. Women’s and Gender Studies 101 (Fall ‘09)
• FYS: European Humor in Times of Global Chaos: The Avant-gardes (Spring ‘09)
   
  DEPARTAMENTAL ACTIVITIES
  
  
• Editor of the Spanish journal Reflejos
• Academic Advisor
• Director of the ISLI Summer Program in Querétaro, México (2004)
• Director of ISLI Summer Session II on campus
• Editor, translator, tour guide for the art exhibition Cuban Artists Books and Prints:1985-2008( Libros y grabados de artistas cubanos: 1985-2008). Wake Forest University (August-October 2009).

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Recipient of extraordinary abroad scholarship by the Department of English and American Literature at the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain (1996/97).
• Winner of translation award at the “Certamen de traducción poética del inglés al español,”  (Cáceres, Spain, 1996). 

 
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• “Modernismo/Antimodernismo: contradicciones y paradojas de Bloom 
• en Ulysses” in James Joyce: Límites de lo Diáfano. Ed. Carmelo Medina Casado et al.
• (Jaén: University of Jaén, 1998) 257-268.
• “El lamento del amor incondicional: “Carta de una desconocida y
• poesía lírica anónima” in Cine y Cultura; The 40s: Estados Unidos y  Gran Bretaña.
• Ed. Francisco García Tortosa et al. (Sevilla: Minerva Artes Gráficas, 2000) 69-79.
• “Cookcook! Search me: Juegos ¿de niños? en Finnegans Wake” in
• Silveredpowdered Olivetrees: Reading Joyce in Spain. Ed. Jeffery Simmons et al.
• (Sevilla: Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2003) 273-282.
• “Romeo the Mexican and Juliet the Gypsy:
• Shakespeare’s Hispanic flavor in Amarte duele and Montoyas y Tarantos” in Coming of Age on Film: Stories of Transformation in World Cinema. Ed. Anne Hardcastle et al. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006. 71-81.
• “The Aryan James Joyce: Uses of the Swastika in Finnegans Wake” in 
• Joycesbilya. Ed. Francisco García Tortosa et al. Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, 2006 (in press).
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• “The Sanity of the Insane: Humor and ´Humorismo´in Ramón Gómez de
• la Serna” (paper accepted).
• “What can’t be coded can be decoded”: Ciphering and Codification in
• Finnegans Wake.”  Papers on Joyce 7 (2002) 33-38.
• “La venganza del texto: expropriación de lo explícito” Postmodernisms:
• Those were the days? Prospects and Retrospects-Postmodernismos:
• ¿qué días aquéllos? Perspectivas y Retrospectivas vol. XIII of Philologia
• Hispalensis. 8:2 (1999): 159-66.
• “Deriding the Exotic: Techniques of Defamiliarization in Joseph Conrad, 
• Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce.”  Papers on Joyce 5 (1999) 13-21.
• “A Preliminary Approach to the Uses of ‘Silence’ in Finnegans Wake.”
• Papers on Joyce 4 (1998) 3-17.
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• El lamento de la esposa translation of the Anglo-Saxon elegy The Wife’s Lament into Spanish. Certamen de Traducción Poética del Inglés al Español (Cáceres: Universidad de Cáceres, Spain. 1996).